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Attack
Theatre has been making personal, accessible and collaborative dance-based
performances with "ninja-like intensity" (Pittsburgh Tribune
Review) for more than a decade. They combine modern dance, original
live music, multimedia and interdisciplinary art forms to present
work in traditional and nontraditional spaces throughout the United
States and around the world. They have collaborated with major regional
theaters (Quantum Theatre), NYC Broadway productions (Squonk),
museums (Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Frick Art Museum,
Mattress Factory), symphonies (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra), operas
(Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, Spoleto USA) and
international dance companies (Japan's Nibroll Collective and Belgium's
Compagnie Matteo Moles), presenting nearly 100 original works in
theatrical and stie specific settings. While maintaining a loyal
audience in their home base of Pittsburgh, they have toured Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, the District of Columbia,
Texas, Washington, and New York; and internationally, throughout
France, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Turkey, and Japan.
Gaining
national recognition, Attack Theatre was featured in Dance Magazine's
"25 to Watch" in 2007, the recent Games of Steel
was selected for the prestigious 2006-2007 National Dance Project
(New England Foundation for the Arts) and appeared in seven theaters
nationwide and The Kitchen Sink was chosen as "Best
Dance of 2006" by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Attack Theatre
is a three-time recipient of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
fellowship award, the Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts award
and the Hardie Award as Arts Educator of the Year for 2006. Peter
Kope and Michele de la Reza have been named five times as one of
the Top 50 Cultural Leaders of Pittsburgh by the Pittsburgh Post
Gazette (2002-06); and in 2004, the Governor of Pennsylvania's Silver
and Gold Award recognized Attack Theatre's excellence for innovative
services for the elderly.
Attack
Theatre also conducts residencies in contemporary dance, creative
movement and aesthetic education in universities, primary and secondary
schools, arts festivals and community centers. The company's outreach
programs focus on demystifying the artistic process and building
community.
The
company's repertoire carries an audience on a journey of wide ranging
emotions with daring, passionate and dramatic choreography. The
company's dancers, musicians, designers, video artists and actors
collaborate for an engaging evening of theatricality. With humor,
pathos, and virtuosity this company of performers ever entertains.
An engaging show of duets, and interactive process/performance in
museum galleries, a stunning large scale proscenium concert of dance,
music and video... Attack Theatre doea not shy from confrontation,
but seeks to understand why it troubles us.
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